Linda Ronstadt Quotes
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So goodbye, I'll be leaving, I see no sense in this crying and grieving. We'll both live a lot longer, if you live without me.
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I never went to the Beatles' concerts to scream. I never screamed at anybody's show. I was on my feet with the entire, all of the crowned heads of Motown, and we were shrieking our guts out.
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People don't realize that by voting Republican, they voted against themselves....I worry that some people are entertained by the idea of this war. They don't know anything about the Iraqis, but they're angry and frustrated in their own lives. It's like Germany, before Hitler took over. The economy was bad and people felt kicked around. They looked for a scapegoat. Now we've got a new bunch of Hitlers.
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In committing to artistic growth, you have to refine your skills to support your instincts.
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I feel sorry for a culture that depends too much on delegating its musical expression to professionals. It is fine to have heroes, but we should do our own singing first, even if it is never heard beyond the shower curtain.
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When you sing the same song over and over and over again, it stops meaning what it originally meant to you. It starts sounding like white noise, or my washing machine.
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The greatest sin is carelessness.
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Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight, someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight.
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There are a lot of aspiring singers who are not paid attention to because they don't look like a fashion model.
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This is an election year, and I think we're in desperate trouble and it's time for people to speak up and not pipe down. It's a real conflict for me when I go to a concert and find out somebody in the audience is a Republican or fundamental Christian. It can cloud my enjoyment. I'd rather not know.
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I think there's mind in nature. There's a power in nature, and there's a universal power that you'd better not ignore.
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In the United States, we spend millions of dollars on sports because it promotes teamwork, discipline, and the experience of learning to make great progress in small increments. Learning to play music does all this and more.
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The constant fear of a performer is to become what is reflected back at you.
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I can't sing half as well as Claudia Lennear. Hats off to her, but somehow, things happened for me.
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Story is what's most important.
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I thought everybody could sing, because everybody in my family could.
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I get on the airplane and there's a screen in front of everything. You get into a taxicab in New York, there's a screen blinking at you. I think it's going to have a tremendous effect on our brains, because those bright, saturated colors and those strong lines, they do things to your brain.
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Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.
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People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and theyre usually 98 percent wrong.
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There should not be a question of legal or illegal immigration. People came and immigrated to this country from the time of the Indians. No ones illegal. They should just be able to come.
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Music isn't just for professionals. We delegate all of our music and our dancing and our art to professionals. It's silly. We should be doing our own dancing and drawing.
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I think if you do what's in your heart - Joseph Campbell always says you have to follow your bliss, and if you do, doors open where you didn't even realize there were doors.
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We've got blue light, we've got all this light flooding our bedrooms and things blinking, and you can't get a decent night's sleep.
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Cocaine made my nose bleed right away. I thought why do I need a nose bleed? It would make me real nervous and talk really fast. I'm already pretty good at talking too fast. I thought, "Why do I need that?"
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A lot of singers that I've heard that I may not like their sensibility, but I see that they're entitled to whatever they get. People don't get there without talent, they really don't.
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What I think is the universal, wonderful thing about music, is that it's very inclusive.
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I love sex as much as I love music, and I think it's as hard to do.
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The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream.
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I think there's just a lot of compassion in art. Again, when you're doing something that resonates with somebody else, you're going through an experience another person has had, whether it's been a painful experience or a joyous experience or a happy experience.
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Love will abide, take things in stride.
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